A Clockwork Orange Country
Monday, September 29, 2008 4:16 PM
Abdication of parental responsibility on a nation-wide scale is blighting Britain’s social landscape, according to one English commentator.
One of the results: A generation of amoral and violent youth who resemble the characters in “A Clockwork Orange,” filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie about a dystopic future United Kingdom.
In an article entitled “Childhood’s End” in the... READ MORE
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Cardinal Newman’s Cause
Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:49 AM
Portrait of John Henry Newman. (CNS)
Officials at the Birmingham Oratory in England have announced that the body of Cardinal John Henry Newman will be exhumed in advance of his possible beatification.
The body of the famous 19th-century Anglican convert will lie in state at the Birmingham Oratory Oct. 31-Nov. 1.
It will be reburied Nov. 2.
Earlier this week, Vatican officials studying Cardinal Newman’s beatification cause... READ MORE
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Update: An Empty Grave
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:22 AM
Portrait of John Henry Newman. (CNS)
We’ve updated last week’s Daily Blog entry here about Cardinal John Henry Newman, to include information about the Oct. 1 exhumation of his grave in England.
— Tom McFeely
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